From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 2 03:30:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ADE1106564A for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 03:30:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.226.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A75D8FC14 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 03:30:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from x220.ovitrap.com ([122.129.201.76]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q522gWNM022778; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 20:42:33 -0600 From: Erich To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 09:42:31 +0700 Message-ID: <3986360.atgbTedGoT@x220.ovitrap.com> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.3 (Linux/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64; KDE/4.8.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 03:30:28 -0000 Hi, On 01 June 2012 AM 5:03:26 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > > "Why Are You Using FreeBSD ?" there is only one reason for me not using FreeBSD: hardware which is not supported but found in the machine. I have had to move two machines within the last three years to Fedora because of this. The first machine has had an old network adapter which was not supported by FreeBSD. The second machine is my new X220 on which I could not get X running before I have had to use it for work. I will stick now with it while I am travelling. This will take some time. I will have a try with FreeBSD again after my return. I also noticed one small problem when people use FreeBSD mainly and have one machine with Linux. It is similar. Yes, but it is not the same. When options differ, it becomes real problematic. I was really considering moving back to Windows on that one machine. Fedora supports the built-in camera and finger print reader. I could not read memory cards with the built-in reader but have had to use my old external one. What really puts me off on Fedora is the maintenance. I do not understand why people do this to themselfs. FreeBSD is so much easier to maintain. How often did Fedora introduce basic changes which runs you crazy when you have to maintain several machines? Erich